Free and Discounted Historical Fiction on Kindle

Historical fiction books are novels that are set in specific points in history, typically featuring characters of the author’s own imagination. These compelling stories weave together true historical facts with unique insights from the perspective of the fictional characters, making you see past events in an entirely different light.

Free: The Garment Maker’s Daughter

Spanning multiple decades, The Garment Maker’s Daughter follows Jewish immigrant Lena Rothman who moves to America to become a shirtwaist-maker and devoted suffragette. Her life is quickly derailed when she finds herself falling in love with her best friend’s boyfriend Jake Brenner. Their love is put on hold, however, when a devastating fire engulfs the ... Read more

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Wolf’s Head

When a frightened young outlaw joins a gang of violent criminals their names – against a backdrop of death, dishonour, brotherhood, and love – will become legend. “Wolf’s Head” brings the brutality, injustice and intensity of life in medieval England vividly to life, and marks the beginning of a thrilling new historical fiction series in ... Read more

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Free: Restless Hearts

Mona Ingram

Sparks fly when Sarah Howard and Jamie Thompson meet on board a schooner bound for the San Francisco gold rush. But will Sarah’s independent streak derail the growing attraction between them? Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Audrey and the Summer of Storms

Phyllis Moore

A tidbit of a story acknowledging the coming of age of us all. They are often melancholy times, staying with us as we grow into adulthood and remember — “oh yeah.” We remind ourselves about the summers, the people we met, and the things we learned even though our parents tried to shield us from ... Read more

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Free: Mail Order Bride Delia

Charity Phillips

For four women, the Civil War has sparked a bout of change within them that cannot be ignored; for Delia Hennessey, it has created a passion for life that will not be denied. It is the reason that she convinces three of her closest friends to join her in contacting men across the country who ... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Hitler’s mistress. 50 years after the war, she discovers just what secrets it’s been hiding. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” – Philadelphia Inquirer. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Failed Moments

A. Robert Allen

What if the only way to survive your life is to go back in history and right the wrongs of two other men’s lives? Patrick Walsh finds himself in this precarious position as he goes back in time to the French Caribbean in 1790, just before the slave revolt, which created Haiti, and 1863 NYC ... Read more

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Inclementia

A loveless marriage, a remote crumbling mansion, a man who was not what he seemed and an ‘impossible’ love that would lead Eudora into terrible danger and change her life in ways beyond her imagination. We cannot choose who we love. In life or in death, it will find us. A strange and twisted gothic ... Read more

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Free: Push Not the River

James Conroyd Martin

An epic novel, PUSH NOT THE RIVER paints the rich story of Poland in the late 1700s. “It contains all the sweep of Gone with the Wind, with a heroine who remains strong in the face of both personal and political tragedy….at once timeless and timely.” -India Edghill, author of Queenmaker. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Scavengers

David J. West

An untouchable gunslinger. A lost hoard of gold. A host of brutal adversaries. What could possibly go wrong? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Vittoria

Dafna Vitale Ben Bassat

A swiping historical drama about the unforgettable Vittoria and her Jewish family in face of WW II. The story of the Italian Jewish community in face of the Holocaust, drama of loss and despair, survival and human triumph. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Templar Scroll

Scott Chapman

As the Christian hold on the Holy Land crumbles, Templar Knight, Salvatore and his leader, the Mason fight to defend the ancient city of Acre. They have a duty to defend their last bastion in the region and to defend a mysterious artifact whose very existence cannot be revealed to the man tasked with its ... Read more

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Legacy of Luck

Christy Nicholas

Irish Traveler Éamonn loves gambling, women, and drinking, not necessarily in that order. But he’s entangled in a true mess when he falls for fiery redhead, Katie. When she’s married to a Scottish Traveler, Éamonn travels to Scotland to find her, with the help of Katie’s sister and cousin, and the magical brooch gifted by ... Read more

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Long Road to Abilene

Robert Vaughan

LONG ROAD TO ABILENE, is a classic hero’s journey, a western adventure that exemplifies the struggles, the defeats, and the victories that personify the history of the American West. After surviving the bloody battle of Franklin and the hell of a Yankee prison camp, Cade McCall comes home to the woman he loves only to ... Read more

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Free: Sophie’s Christmas On The Frontier

Faith-Ann Smith

Christmastime turns out to be more beautiful than a young widow could have dreamed when she decides to trust in the Lord and gather up her two children to embark on a journey to Seattle to meet a charming widower and his lovely young daughter. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Arkansas River

Jory Sherman

Rivers West is one of the most exciting frontier series of our time… tales of mountain men and intrepid women, pioneer families and Native American warriors. Here is the story of North America in all its awesome splendor. The Arkansas River is the first book in the series. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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West of the War

L.J. Martin

Young Bradon McTavish watches the bluecoats brutally hang his father and destroy everything he’s known, and he escapes their wrath into the gunsmoke and blood of war. Captured and paroled, only if he’ll head west of the war, he rides the river into the wilds of the new territory of Montana where savages and grizzlies ... Read more

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Free: Abigail’s Christmas Gift

Charity Phillips

The year is 1870, and Abigail Copeland is a nurse in New York City who dreams of adventure and romance in a far away place. Her mother believes that all she really needs is a husband, so, when Abigail begins corresponding with a handsome young man from the West who is looking for a bride, ... Read more

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Free: YESHUA

Stan I.S. Law

A gripping and inspirational account of the eighteen years in the life of Jesus not covered by the Bible. Read about the travels Jesus made around Asia Minor, India and Egypt in his formatting years of awakening.  Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The House of Closed Doors

In Nell Lillington’s small Midwestern town of the 1870s, a young woman’s destiny is marriage. Nell, determined to escape matrimony, finds herself pregnant but refuses to divulge the father’s name. Nell’s stepfather Hiram sends her to the Poor Farm so her baby can be discreetly adopted. But when two small bodies are found at the ... Read more

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Free: Elizabeth’s Christmas Miracle

Faith-Ann Smith

The widow Elizabeth Beaumont and her two children struggle to make ends meet in Boston after the Civil War took her dear husband away. Facing limited prospects and quickly running out of options, she finds an advertisement in the newspaper for a mail order bride from Mr. O’Connell, who lives in California with his two ... Read more

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Western Fiction 10 Pack

Robert Vaughan

Ten classic westerns from arguably the top western writers of our time. Glory Dust by Robert Vaughan – Blood Trail by John Legg – Crossed Arrows by Terry Grosz – Deadman’s Lament by Linell Jeppsen – El Lazo by L.J. Martin – The Fugitive by Chet Cunningham – The Derby Man by Gary McCarthy – ... Read more

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Grandpa and the Kid

Cliff Hudgins

Adversity is the stimulus of life. It moves one to develop or collapse. A young boy loses his entire family to a calamity and forces him to change. His mother’s last wish was to find a man he has just barely heard about and doesn’t know if he will be received well or not, but ... Read more

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Free: Olivia’s Christmas On The Frontier

Charity Phillips

A smart, independent young woman with a sense of adventure takes a voyage by sea to the Western Frontier to become a mail order bride–and is blessed with a special Christmas surprise… Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Best of the American West (Boxed Set)

L.J. Martin

Six classic westerns from six award winning authors and arguably the top western writers of our time. Texas Glory by Robert Vaughan – Stillwater Smith by Frank Roderus – The Horsemen by Gary McCarthy – Wades War by Chet Cunningham – Nemesis by L. J. Martin,Sheriffs Blood by John Legg. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more

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Mail Order Mishap

Barbara Goss

Amber Wakefield travels to Hunter’s Grove, Kansas and walks into a very unwelcoming atmosphere. Charles Turner, her intended, seems cool and aloof. His brother Garrett is down right rude. She wants nothing more than to rush back to Virginia, but Edna Smith, her chaperone, falls ill, and she’s force to stay. She knows Charles harbors ... Read more

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A Wave From Mama

A. Robert Allen

What do Weeksville, Irishtown, and the Draft Riots all have in common? A common place in American history or the setting for a socially awkward former slave determined to meet the challenges of the day? All of this action set in the backdrop of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Pianist in a Bordello

What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth? Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters just ... Read more

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Cade’s Revenge

Robert Vaughan

Follow Cade McCall as he rides the Chisholm Trail, crosses raging rivers, faces cattle rustlers and fights marauding Indians while taking a herd of longhorns north to Kansas. He reaches his destination only to be devastated by the most heinous act he has ever encountered. Driven by a rage-filled determination, Cade begins his search for ... Read more

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Dawn of the Century

Robert Vaughan

In Volume One of The American Chronicles, Robert Vaughan panoramically evokes America at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, poised on the brink of greatness and fraught with the tumult of rapid change. In a time of robber-baron industrialists and rapid territorial expansion both at home and abroad, the new music called “ragtime” is the ... Read more

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Whispers Out of the Dust

David West

“Some things lost on the borders of dusk were never meant to be found.” Whispers Out Of The Dust: A Haunted Journey Through The Lost American West is a supernatural treasure hunt. Documents spanning centuries relate the story of a forgotten valley brimming with magic, ghosts and evil. Published here for the first time these ... Read more

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My Splendid Concubine

Robert Hart arrives in China during the 19th century Opium Wars and Taiping Rebellion. The real-life Devil Soldier becomes his enemy. To survive Robert learns how to think like the Chinese, and becomes the only foreigner in history that the emperor trusts. Hart owes this success largely to Ayaou, his concubine, his forbidden lover. $1.99 on ... Read more

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Free: Our Time in the Sun

John McLaughlin

This historically accurate account of an Old West group of lawmen, the Arizona Rangers, is an action-filled story complete with conflict, revenge, love, racism, and redemption in the Arizona Territory of 1903-04. Against the magnificent backdrop of the Southwest, the Rangers chase rustlers, help quell a riot with miners in Morenci, and track the nefarious ... Read more

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Frank Roderus Box Set

Frank Roderus

Journey to Utah, a classic western quest adventure; Charlie and the Sir, a classic western “fish out of water” tale; and The Herdsman; a tale of man against the system. Don’t miss this great buy, three wonderful western tales from the West’s Story Master. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more

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A Promise in Defiance

Bestselling author Heather Blanton brings readers the third book in the highly acclaimed Christian Western Romance in the Rockies Series–a gripping tale of two men with dark pasts and the women who could make them…or break them. The Reformed Saloon-Owner and Pimp… When Charles McIntyre founded the Wild West town of Defiance, he was more than happy ... Read more

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Free: The Voyage

Roberta Kagan

On May 13th 1939, five strangers boarded the MS St. Louis, a German ship leaving Hamburg headed to Cuba. These Jewish passengers paid a huge sum to be released from Nazi Germany.. But, this voyage was built on deceit, betrayals, and secrets that would change their lives and bind them together forever. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Love Reveals

“AWESOME story! I love the way the author was able to weave a forbidden love story into a history lesson then into a heartwarming story of the love between a father and son… Love Reveals will simultaneously educate you and renew your belief in love.”-Hershel Grangant, Bookcraft Free on Kindle. ... Read more

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The Silent Land

Set in England between 1903 and 1919, The Silent Land explores the complexities of love and the pursuit of truth in grief. The inspirational purity of the heroine will draw readers in, demonstrating how strength can be found at times when it would have seemed inconceivable. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Outcast Brigade

Douglas Hirt

A former Apache scout shunned by his tribe, an ex-Union Army major, a former Confederate captain, and two army deserters, all forced to band together to stay alive Can they bury their anger and work together long enough to do what they have to do? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Under Heaven’s Shining Stars

Jean Grainger

For three young boys, Liam, Patrick, and Hugo, life in Ireland of the 1960s proves to be both idyllic and flawed. Living in close proximity but leading vastly different lives, the bonds of friendship bind these young men as they grow, dream, and navigate the storms of youth. In a world where the Catholic Church is ... Read more

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